neilhart
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Preface: I am very pleased with my new Gigabyte Z97N-WiFI motherboard installation into my custom case. The system was running so well I was beginning to wonder if I could re-create it. A word of explanation, I had used a Gigabyte B85N mother board as a bring-up mule during the development of the case and when it came time to swap motherboards it was nearly a non-event as there were no significant problems encountered.
Document a clean install of OS X 10.9.4 onto GA-Z97N-WIFI. The BIOS version is F4.
Used USB installer that was made up from a App Store down load of Mavericks 10.9.4 using UniBeast 4.
Added the following to the installer USB stick:
Kext Wizard.app (goggle for it or use Kext Beast)
Chimera - latest version from the download pages.
MultiBeast 6.4 version download pages
ShowAllFiles.app (goggle for it)
SuperDuper!.app shareware from ShirtPocket Software.
Set up system with one hard drive attached, i7-4770K CPU, 16 GB DDR3 1600 MHz memory, MSI GTX 760 ITX, USB keyboard and USB mouse.
1 Booted using F12 key and selected the USB installer as the boot device.
2 At the Chimera screen I selected the USB installer and pressed Enter (no command line arguments).
3 As noted in my other guides, there is a lengthy delay in the boot to the first installer screen.
4 At the first screen, accept the “Use English for … “ by clicking on the circled arrow at the bottom of the window.
5 At the “Install OS X” window, select Disk Utility from the top menu bar, Utilities tab.
6 For this guide I am using a 250 GB 2.5 inch Hitachi hard disk.
7 Select the target hard drive then click on “Partition” in the right window menu bar.
8 At the “Partition Layout”, click on the “Current” selection and in the drop down menu select 2 Partitions.
9 Then click on the “Options” button found below the “Partition Layout” area. Select “GUID Partition Table” then click OK.
10 Now select the first partition by clicking on “Untitled 1”.
11 Give the partition an appropriate name such as Mac-1. (Mac-2 for the second partition)
12 Set the format to: “Mac OS Extended (journaled).
13 Set the size to anything larger then 40 GB (this could be less but 40 is a workable number).
14 Now repeat lines 10 to 13 for the second partition.
15 Click the “Apply” button and respond to dialog that opens by clicking on “Partition”.
16 Click to close Disk Utility app.
17 In the “Install OS X” window, click “Continue”.
18 Accept the drop down license agreement.
19 Select the first partition for the installation and then click “Install” button.
20 Wait… the duration of the install process is dependent upon the speed of your target drive, the speed of you USB flash drive and the CPU speed. This one took about 17 minutes.
21 The install completes and the system restarts (or click to restart).
22 Use the F12 key during the boot to get the boot device selection screen. Select USB installer.
23 At the Chimera screen select the new install partition; Mac-1 in this example (no arguments needed).
24 The system boots to the new desktop “Welcome” screen.
25 Step through the new account screens add information as appropriate for your situation.
26 The machine reaches the Mavericks desktop.
27 Open “System Preferences” and go to “Security & Privacy” preference.
28 Click on the pad lock icon (lower left corner of the preference screen) and enter you password in the dialog that opens. Then click to “Unlock”.
29 In this dialog, click the “Anywhere” radio button under “Allow app downloaded from:”. And in the drop down click on “Allow From Anywhere”.
30 Now is a good time to set those preferences that you like to have while the System Preferences are open.
31 In the “Energy Saver” preference, set Never and Never and respond to the dialog box.
32 I have an Ethernet cable attached to the Atheros port on the motherboard and system can reach the internet.
33 Also note that we have full video acceleration and translucent top menu bar.
34 Open the USB installer device and drag Chimera, ShowAllFiles, Kext Wizard, MultiBeast, Superduper! and the Kexts folder to the desktop.
35 Open Superduper! and clone Mac-1 to Mac-2. This sets up your recovery path if needed.
36 Open MultiBeast and select “Quick Start” and then “DSDT Free”. And then “Build” and “Install”. Click on “Agree”. Enter your password when requested.
37 Wait while MultiBeast runs. Click on OK in the Kernel extension dialog box. Close MultiBeast when you have “Install Succeeded” message.
38 Click on the USB installer icon and select remove device and then remove the USB stick when the icon disappears from the desktop.
39 Restart the system using the Apple drop down “Restart” button. This is first boot from the hard disk partition.
40 Once back at the desktop (this is the first boot from the new partition).
41 Now to install the Ethernets. Attach a live Ethernet cable to either or both Ethernet Ports. Open MultiBeast again select “Drivers”, “Network” and select “Atheros” “AtherosL1cEthernet 1.2.3” also select “Intel” “AppleIntelE1000e v2.4.14” . And then “Build” and “Install”. Click on “Agree”. Enter your password when requested.
42 Restart the system.
43 Check the Ethernets. On my system the AppleIntelE1000e has loaded and the port is operational.
The driver for the Atheros port had not loaded.
44 My workaround after trying several things: I set hidden files to show using “ShowAllFiles.app”. I went into the UniBeast built installer USB and /Extra/Extensions and opened IONetworkingFamily.kext using “Show Package Contents” to Contents/Plugins and copied “ALXEthernet.kext” and pasted it to the desktop. This is hidden file and needs to be NOT hidden. I opened terminal and did a “cd Desktop” and then “sudo su” (entered password at the prompt) and then “chflags nohidden ALXEthernet.kext” to change the permissions. I then used “ShowAllFiles.app” to hide hidden files.
Closed the terminal app. I then ran “Kext Wizard.app” and used the kext installation function to install
“ALXEthernet.kext” into /System/Library/Extensions. Repaired permissions. Rebooted and there we have Atheros Ethernet port working and a reboot with both cables and both Ethernets are up and running.
45 Everything major is installed and running with the exception of Audio. Make another clone before going to that area of the installation. Superduper! into action. Once the cloning completes run Chimera and make Mac-2 bootable. Then reboot and boot into Mac-2 to confirm that there is a recovery path.
46 Reboot to the first partition (default) and open MulitBeast, “Drivers/Audio/Realtek ALCxxx and select ALC892. Then from “Drivers/Misc select FakeSMC v6.8.1307 Plugins and FakeSMC v6.8.1307 HWMonitor Application. Select Customize/System Definitions/iMac and iMac 14,2 (if not using a i7 cpu, select iMac 14,1). And then “Build” and “Install”. Click on “Agree”. Enter your password when requested. Restart the system upon completion of MulitBeast.
47 Now when you go into the Sound Preferences you will see selections in the “Output” section… unfortunately no output (yet).
48 However Toleda has the solution here in note 6: http://www.tonymacx86.com/audio/112458-mavericks-audio-realtek-alc-applehda-guide.html
Get the script onto your system and click to run it; enter you password… and before you know it has done its work!
49 Reboot and check out your new system… if you are as lucky as I am, you will have a nearly perfect Mavericks installation.
50 Of interest my system takes about 10 seconds to go into sleep from the Apple drop down menu. Wake up is 2 to 5 seconds and everything comes back as far as I can tell in the last three or four days of playing with this system.
51 So there you are. I had been worrying about Z97 being a major problem and as it turns out with my GTX 760 configuration that was not the case.
52 I have numbered the lines for easy reference.
Good modding,
neil
My MiniITX case project can be seen here: http://www.tonymacx86.com/others/133773-neilharts-scratch-build-3-mini-itx-tower.html
Document a clean install of OS X 10.9.4 onto GA-Z97N-WIFI. The BIOS version is F4.
Used USB installer that was made up from a App Store down load of Mavericks 10.9.4 using UniBeast 4.
Added the following to the installer USB stick:
Kext Wizard.app (goggle for it or use Kext Beast)
Chimera - latest version from the download pages.
MultiBeast 6.4 version download pages
ShowAllFiles.app (goggle for it)
SuperDuper!.app shareware from ShirtPocket Software.
Set up system with one hard drive attached, i7-4770K CPU, 16 GB DDR3 1600 MHz memory, MSI GTX 760 ITX, USB keyboard and USB mouse.
1 Booted using F12 key and selected the USB installer as the boot device.
2 At the Chimera screen I selected the USB installer and pressed Enter (no command line arguments).
3 As noted in my other guides, there is a lengthy delay in the boot to the first installer screen.
4 At the first screen, accept the “Use English for … “ by clicking on the circled arrow at the bottom of the window.
5 At the “Install OS X” window, select Disk Utility from the top menu bar, Utilities tab.
6 For this guide I am using a 250 GB 2.5 inch Hitachi hard disk.
7 Select the target hard drive then click on “Partition” in the right window menu bar.
8 At the “Partition Layout”, click on the “Current” selection and in the drop down menu select 2 Partitions.
9 Then click on the “Options” button found below the “Partition Layout” area. Select “GUID Partition Table” then click OK.
10 Now select the first partition by clicking on “Untitled 1”.
11 Give the partition an appropriate name such as Mac-1. (Mac-2 for the second partition)
12 Set the format to: “Mac OS Extended (journaled).
13 Set the size to anything larger then 40 GB (this could be less but 40 is a workable number).
14 Now repeat lines 10 to 13 for the second partition.
15 Click the “Apply” button and respond to dialog that opens by clicking on “Partition”.
16 Click to close Disk Utility app.
17 In the “Install OS X” window, click “Continue”.
18 Accept the drop down license agreement.
19 Select the first partition for the installation and then click “Install” button.
20 Wait… the duration of the install process is dependent upon the speed of your target drive, the speed of you USB flash drive and the CPU speed. This one took about 17 minutes.
21 The install completes and the system restarts (or click to restart).
22 Use the F12 key during the boot to get the boot device selection screen. Select USB installer.
23 At the Chimera screen select the new install partition; Mac-1 in this example (no arguments needed).
24 The system boots to the new desktop “Welcome” screen.
25 Step through the new account screens add information as appropriate for your situation.
26 The machine reaches the Mavericks desktop.
27 Open “System Preferences” and go to “Security & Privacy” preference.
28 Click on the pad lock icon (lower left corner of the preference screen) and enter you password in the dialog that opens. Then click to “Unlock”.
29 In this dialog, click the “Anywhere” radio button under “Allow app downloaded from:”. And in the drop down click on “Allow From Anywhere”.
30 Now is a good time to set those preferences that you like to have while the System Preferences are open.
31 In the “Energy Saver” preference, set Never and Never and respond to the dialog box.
32 I have an Ethernet cable attached to the Atheros port on the motherboard and system can reach the internet.
33 Also note that we have full video acceleration and translucent top menu bar.
34 Open the USB installer device and drag Chimera, ShowAllFiles, Kext Wizard, MultiBeast, Superduper! and the Kexts folder to the desktop.
35 Open Superduper! and clone Mac-1 to Mac-2. This sets up your recovery path if needed.
36 Open MultiBeast and select “Quick Start” and then “DSDT Free”. And then “Build” and “Install”. Click on “Agree”. Enter your password when requested.
37 Wait while MultiBeast runs. Click on OK in the Kernel extension dialog box. Close MultiBeast when you have “Install Succeeded” message.
38 Click on the USB installer icon and select remove device and then remove the USB stick when the icon disappears from the desktop.
39 Restart the system using the Apple drop down “Restart” button. This is first boot from the hard disk partition.
40 Once back at the desktop (this is the first boot from the new partition).
41 Now to install the Ethernets. Attach a live Ethernet cable to either or both Ethernet Ports. Open MultiBeast again select “Drivers”, “Network” and select “Atheros” “AtherosL1cEthernet 1.2.3” also select “Intel” “AppleIntelE1000e v2.4.14” . And then “Build” and “Install”. Click on “Agree”. Enter your password when requested.
42 Restart the system.
43 Check the Ethernets. On my system the AppleIntelE1000e has loaded and the port is operational.
The driver for the Atheros port had not loaded.
44 My workaround after trying several things: I set hidden files to show using “ShowAllFiles.app”. I went into the UniBeast built installer USB and /Extra/Extensions and opened IONetworkingFamily.kext using “Show Package Contents” to Contents/Plugins and copied “ALXEthernet.kext” and pasted it to the desktop. This is hidden file and needs to be NOT hidden. I opened terminal and did a “cd Desktop” and then “sudo su” (entered password at the prompt) and then “chflags nohidden ALXEthernet.kext” to change the permissions. I then used “ShowAllFiles.app” to hide hidden files.
Closed the terminal app. I then ran “Kext Wizard.app” and used the kext installation function to install
“ALXEthernet.kext” into /System/Library/Extensions. Repaired permissions. Rebooted and there we have Atheros Ethernet port working and a reboot with both cables and both Ethernets are up and running.
45 Everything major is installed and running with the exception of Audio. Make another clone before going to that area of the installation. Superduper! into action. Once the cloning completes run Chimera and make Mac-2 bootable. Then reboot and boot into Mac-2 to confirm that there is a recovery path.
46 Reboot to the first partition (default) and open MulitBeast, “Drivers/Audio/Realtek ALCxxx and select ALC892. Then from “Drivers/Misc select FakeSMC v6.8.1307 Plugins and FakeSMC v6.8.1307 HWMonitor Application. Select Customize/System Definitions/iMac and iMac 14,2 (if not using a i7 cpu, select iMac 14,1). And then “Build” and “Install”. Click on “Agree”. Enter your password when requested. Restart the system upon completion of MulitBeast.
47 Now when you go into the Sound Preferences you will see selections in the “Output” section… unfortunately no output (yet).
48 However Toleda has the solution here in note 6: http://www.tonymacx86.com/audio/112458-mavericks-audio-realtek-alc-applehda-guide.html
Get the script onto your system and click to run it; enter you password… and before you know it has done its work!
49 Reboot and check out your new system… if you are as lucky as I am, you will have a nearly perfect Mavericks installation.
50 Of interest my system takes about 10 seconds to go into sleep from the Apple drop down menu. Wake up is 2 to 5 seconds and everything comes back as far as I can tell in the last three or four days of playing with this system.
51 So there you are. I had been worrying about Z97 being a major problem and as it turns out with my GTX 760 configuration that was not the case.
52 I have numbered the lines for easy reference.
Good modding,
neil
My MiniITX case project can be seen here: http://www.tonymacx86.com/others/133773-neilharts-scratch-build-3-mini-itx-tower.html
Very good guide. 
Using a graphics card saved you the trouble expense that I ran into trying to get the on-board HD4600.
